With thousands more ground forces heading to the Gulf, President Trump signals the fighting could soon be over.

Quoting from his social media post from late today, we are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the terrorist regime of Iran.

The Hormuz Strait, he adds, will have to be guarded and policed as necessary by other

nations who use it. The United States does not. He finishes by saying, if asked, we will help

these countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn't be necessary once Iran's threat is

eradicated. Importantly, it will be an easy military operation for them. In short, getting out and leaving American allies defend for themselves, as for the declaring victory part, he did that as well today.

Oh, I think we've won. We've knocked out their Navy, their Air Force, we've knocked out their anti-aircraft, we've knocked out everything.

We're roaming free.

From a military standpoint, all they're doing is clogging up the strait, but from a military

standpoint, they're finished.

Well, Kiparmona sources in the intelligence community and the administration tell us that

unclogging the strait is a problem without a clear solution, one that a recent

intelligence assessment determined could drag on for as long as six months. Now, a Pentagon spokesman

dismissed that notion, though, telling CNN, quote, one assessment does not mean the assessment is

plausible and it's dangerous for the media to cherry-pick the worst-case scenario to scare the American

people. Still, it is hard to find anyone with any experience of the region saying that safeguarding the

strait will be, as the president just put it, an easy military operation, or that it will

open itself, which he also said today.

I want to ask you this, there have been a lot of lies.

First of all, we haven't even, as of this

hour, this Friday night, we haven't entered the third week of this conflict. In terms of intelligence,

military display of power, there's never been anything like this in the history of warfare, ever.

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